Meghan Bodette

2 weeks ago | es.globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Julissa Álvarez Coroa |Sinan Ciddi |Meghan Bodette

La nueva ley de ciberseguridad de Turquía, promulgada el 13 de marzo de 2025, ha suscitado un acalorado debate sobre su impacto en los derechos digitales, la libertad de expresión, la libertad de los medios y el acceso a la información desde el momento que el proyecto de ley se presentó en el Parlamento el 10 de enero de 2025.

1 month ago | globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Sinan Ciddi |Meghan Bodette |Oiwan Lam |Arzu Geybulla

An opposition-led boycott in Turkey started on March 19, the day Istanbul's mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was detained. That night, the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party Özgür Özel told the crowd who gathered outside the Istanbul municipality headquarters to boycott pro-government media channels and a list of companies affiliated with the government on the grounds that the television channels did not cover the large scale demonstrations.

1 month ago | globalvoices.org | Arzu Geybullayeva |Sinan Ciddi |Meghan Bodette |Saoussen Ben Cheikh |Arzu Geybulla

Turkey's new cybersecurity law, enacted on March 13, 2025, has sparked heated debate about its impact on digital rights, freedom of speech, media freedom, and access to information from the moment the bill was introduced in the parliament on January 10, 2025. Many Turkish experts, civil society groups, and international observers saw the law as a potential tool to restrict independent reporting and stifle dissent.

1 month ago | globalvoices.org | Sinan Ciddi |Meghan Bodette |Arzu Geybullayeva |Saoussen Ben Cheikh

After nearly half a century of fighting, Turkey’s Kurdish rebels are ready to bring their insurgency to an end. If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan takes talks seriously, this could benefit not just Turks and Kurds, but also Washington’s position in the region. But if Erdoğan and his government simply instrumentalize the promise of peace as a regional power grab, the challenges in U.S.-Turkey relations will only grow.

Nov 19, 2024 | kurdishpeace.org | Meghan Bodette |Hoshang Hasan |Lisel Hintz

On November 4, Turkish authorities removed the elected Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party co-mayors of Mardin, Batman, and Halfeti districts and replaced them with “trustees” loyal to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). To date, a total of four DEM municipalities that the pro-Kurdish DEM Party won in this year’s local elections have been taken over by the central government in this way, depriving 362,684 voters of their chosen elected representation.